Beowulf's Children

The Legacy of Heorot is one of a few novels I have read multiple times. It was also my introduction, not only to hard science fiction, but to horror. The Grendels were terrifying. The Dragons of Heorot (also published as Beowulf's Children) is a very different kettle of fish. It gets off to a slow st......more

For what should be a fairly interesting multi-generational survival adventure on an alien world, with changing social structures and the need to shoot REALLY fast to take down the extremely dangerous locals, I was kinda saddened to see a LOT of the page-space devoted to some rather cringe-worthy sex......more

The main thing wrong with this book is that it's not nearly as good as the first volume, The Legacy of Heorot. The exploration and colonization themes take second place to ideas about sociology and politics that the authors want to espouse. There was a rather long period between the two, so it's fit......more

Reading Beowulf's Children I found my self equal parts absorbed and frustrated. I enjoyed the setting, no, I loved the setting - a beautifully constructed world that the inhabitants were struggling to understand and live in, with lifeforms that struck the right chord between alien and believable. Wh......more

I grabbed this book because I remembered it being mentioned as a highlight of Larry Niven's bibliography in another of his books. That, and the cover was kinda exciting with the gold print and all. That said, I wasn't sure I would enjoy this book too much because one of the aspects of sci-fi that I......more